Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.
WEB
He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
YLT
And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.
DBT
And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJob — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.
- Author
- Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
- Date
- Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer takes the position.